- Issued:
- 2012-02-20
- Updated:
- 2012-02-20
RHEA-2012:0204 - Product Enhancement Advisory
Synopsis
yp-tools enhancement update
Type/Severity
Product Enhancement Advisory
Red Hat Insights patch analysis
Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.
Topic
An updated yp-tools package that adds one enhancement is now available for Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 5.
Description
The Network Information Service (NIS), formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP),
is a system that provides network information (login names, passwords, home
directories, group information) to all machines on a network. NIS can enable
users to log in on any machine on the network as long as the machine has the NIS
client programs running and the user's password is recorded in the NIS passwd
database.
This update adds the following enhancement:
- When using the /etc/passwd.adjunct configuration file, the previous version of
the ypasswd client program did not recognize the salt used for hashing a new
password and chose the Data Encryption Standard (DES) as the default hash
function. This update introduces a new "YP_PASSWD_HASH" environment variable,
which allows users to explicitly specify either "md5" (for the MD5
Message-Digest Algorithm) or "des" (DES) as the hash algorithm. (BZ#682037)
All users of yp-tools are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds
this enhancement.
Solution
Before applying this update, make sure all previously-released errata relevant
to your system have been applied.
This update is available via the Red Hat Network. Details on how to use the Red
Hat Network to apply this update are available at
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259
Affected Products
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386
Fixes
(none)CVEs
(none)
References
(none)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c2f4125fa9a37bce282098d6743465c716b47b01437739027b4161c4a10fb471 |
x86_64 | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 8102d15a9220f1e499c8bc9389fbc183d8c02968301624c6e568ac7fb76e4ec1 |
ia64 | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.ia64.rpm | SHA-256: 5048cd9d4e42bb330cd52313e2d7bb144adf01b222696be6b3e32a0784272af1 |
i386 | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: b997aabcb44ceeaa5436f58c6ef3cf7bde862c65c7ec41191b8d239d9edd1499 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c2f4125fa9a37bce282098d6743465c716b47b01437739027b4161c4a10fb471 |
x86_64 | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 8102d15a9220f1e499c8bc9389fbc183d8c02968301624c6e568ac7fb76e4ec1 |
i386 | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: b997aabcb44ceeaa5436f58c6ef3cf7bde862c65c7ec41191b8d239d9edd1499 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c2f4125fa9a37bce282098d6743465c716b47b01437739027b4161c4a10fb471 |
x86_64 | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 8102d15a9220f1e499c8bc9389fbc183d8c02968301624c6e568ac7fb76e4ec1 |
i386 | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: b997aabcb44ceeaa5436f58c6ef3cf7bde862c65c7ec41191b8d239d9edd1499 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c2f4125fa9a37bce282098d6743465c716b47b01437739027b4161c4a10fb471 |
s390x | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.s390x.rpm | SHA-256: 4da1b9ff1102a794ab3fc9e4251e37dc0a6e79cf299b78b7210e15dc4757a4b6 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c2f4125fa9a37bce282098d6743465c716b47b01437739027b4161c4a10fb471 |
ppc | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.ppc.rpm | SHA-256: 55b9913896d0dceeff98e48d9c60726de8cc47853cf34f932e50f4e129946777 |
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5
SRPM | |
---|---|
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.src.rpm | SHA-256: c2f4125fa9a37bce282098d6743465c716b47b01437739027b4161c4a10fb471 |
x86_64 | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.x86_64.rpm | SHA-256: 8102d15a9220f1e499c8bc9389fbc183d8c02968301624c6e568ac7fb76e4ec1 |
i386 | |
yp-tools-2.9-2.el5.i386.rpm | SHA-256: b997aabcb44ceeaa5436f58c6ef3cf7bde862c65c7ec41191b8d239d9edd1499 |
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